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Welcome to the IASIL Page for Publishing Opportunities. This page lists publishing opportunities in Irish Literature, Theatre, and Film. Publications with broader themes that pay substantial attention to Irish writing will also be listed from time to time. If you wish to include a listing, email webmaster@iasil.org These pages are provided for information only - you should confirm dates, deadlines, and so on with editors/publishers. Publishing Opportunities, 2005 Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism in Irish Women's Fiction. Murmurs that Come out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts, a Collection (deadline 28 February 2006) Elizabeth Bowen: New Critical Perspectives (deadline 30 November 2005) A New Book of Morses: Encoding Joyce in the 21st Century New Book Series from Palgrave Macmillan - Call for Proposals Estudios Irlandeses - call for papers Edna O'Brien - call for papers New Irish Studies Journal Seeking Submissions The Irish Atlantic - Intercultural Contact and Conflict (deadline August 2005) Éire-Ireland Spring 2007 special issue:Amongst Empires Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies Etudes Irlandaises: Ireland and Europe Eire-Ireland: Ireland and Gender Irish Theatre: at the Crossroads of Tradition (deadline Jan 2005)
Publishing Opportunities, July - December 2004 Canadian Journal of Irish Studies - Irish-Canadian history and literature Encyclopaedia of Irish-American Relations (2004) Ireland and Film (1 September 2004) Popular
Culture and Postmodern Ireland 30 June 2004 The information on this page should be confirmed with journal/book editors before you make submissions.
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| Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism in Irish Women's Fiction. the editors are seeking articles for a collection focusing on transnational content and context in modern Irish and Anglo-Irish fiction by women. Studies of Irish women's fiction published over the past decade have done important work by exploring the various relationships between gender and nationalism that Irish women have addressed in their fictional narratives. Extending and revising this significant body of scholarship, this collection will consider the ways in which issues of internationalism, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism inform, enrich, and complicate fiction by Irish women. It will thus also address how traditional (and implicitly male-centered) rubrics of Irish nationalism and transnationalism have obscured or misinterpreted these contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: a.. Transnational literature that recuperates cosmopolitan Irish identities formerly subsumed by nationalist paradigms b.. Studies of how and where women's texts have challenged standard alignments of cosmopolitan or exilic mobility and modern or postmodern poetics c.. Domestic spaces traversed by national and international figures, communities, and interests d.. Texts that negotiate the interplay of transnational and Irish national identities e.. Texts that explore the interplay of gender and transnational issues f.. Globalization and Romance: remapping the gendering of form g.. Travel writing/writing travel: Irish women on the move While canonical figures such as Elizabeth Bowen are of particular interest, we are open to studies of any modern Irish or Anglo-Irish women authors.Inquiries regarding this collection can be forwarded to the co-editors by email: Kate Costello-Sullivan, Le Moyne College, sullivkp@lemoyne.edu or Nels C. Pearson, Tennessee State University,npearson@bellsouth.net Editors request the submission of completed manuscripts, in duplicate, by March 31, 2006
Murmurs that Come out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts, a Collection Long before there was a theoretical movement that defined and categorized literary readings of nature, scholars of Irish literature have understood the importance of the natural world to an Irish cultural sensibility. An emphasis on place not only pervades Irish writing of the twentieth century but is also rooted in ancient traditions of Celtic mythology and place-lore. While critical assessments of Irish place writing are numerous, few address such representations of the natural world as politically and culturally informed and scripted texts. Even fewer address the ecological implications embedded in these ways of knowing place. Globalization, the expanding European economy, technological growth--all of which have turned a famine-ridden colonized nation into the tiger of Europe-- necessitate a consideration of place that is committed to its ecological materiality. This project will explore the natural world as a record of, and participant in, the experiences of a place called Ireland. The theoretical foundations of the project are rooted in critical assumptions that have more frequently been linked to American studies. Careful and trenchant work within the field of ecocriticism has effectively articulated the implicit fallibility of any attempt to isolate nature from culture. Through a study of the cultural forces that shape and construct an environmental ethic in Ireland, this project is a gesture to wed the critical impetus of ecocriticism to environmental concerns in Ireland. This collection will be grounded in the long tradition of place studies that carry us through very recent critical contributions, most notably Oona Frawley’s study Irish Pastoral: Nostalgia and Twentieth Century Irish Literature (2005). The defining characteristic of this new endeavor will be its contribution to not only the conceptual manifestation of place and landscape in Irish texts, but also to the complex and concrete reality of the wellness and sustenance of Ireland’s natural resources. This will be an interdisciplinary collection; thus, the text in this study will be broadly defined. Critical studies of film, photography, and/or such social phenomenon as ecotourism in Ireland, are welcomed. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, studies that consider the following influences upon the conceptualization and treatment of the natural world in Ireland:
Inquiries should be sent to Christine Cusick at christine.cusick@iup.edu Established scholars in both Irish and Ecocritical Studies have already agreed to contribute to this collection; however, engaging work from both established and new scholars alike is welcomed. All submissions should conform to the MLA Style Sheet. Please send completed essay length submissions to: Dr. Christine Cusick Department of English 110 Leonard Hall Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA 15705 Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2006 Elizabeth Bowen: New Critical Perspectives Call for abstracts for essays for publication in the upcoming collection: Elizabeth Bowen: New Critical Perspectives (edited by Susan Osborn, Rutgers University). Aims and Intentions: Elizabeth Bowen's writing has always provoked controversy, from the publication of her first stories to her final discontinuous novel, Eva Trout. Yet despite the conspicuous irregularities in her fictional narratives, most of Bowen's past readers have avoided any discussion of those aspects of her work, in particular her experiments with style and language, that make her work complex and controversial. The aim of this collection is to broaden the critical framework of Bowen scholarship and to extend existing Bowen criticism. New readings of Bowen's fictional narratives that address the less customary and unexpected aspects of her work (and interpretations that relate those aspects to recent shifts in our thinking about modernism generally) as well as essays that address the uncertain relation between Bowen and her past and present readers are welcome Finished essays should approximately 7000 to 10,000 words. Please send a 250-word, double-spaced and titled abstract (or finished essay), and a brief scholarly biography by November 30 to S. Osborn, Ph.D. at susosborn@patmedia.net. Theatrical
Portrayal of Mothers: A Historical Tracking of Mothers, Mothering and
Motherhood Through the History of World Theatre Recent generations of theatrical scholarship have begun the process of excavating the presence and voice of women in theatre, both how they have been represented and misrepresented. This book will continue to uncover that presence, specifically through the idea of motherhood that has yet to receive in-depth consideration in theatrical scholarship. The goal of this collection is to understand how the image of mother has been portrayed and used throughout history and to examine the reclaiming of that image by female theatre artists in service of their own vision. the editors encourage submissions on world theatre (Asian, African, Latin American, African American, Middle Eastern and beyond) and welcome submission by both female and male scholars. Possible
approaches: Abstracts
of 300-500 words and a short biography of the author are invited by
October 17. Acceptances will be made by November 18, and accepted papers
of 15-20 pages will be due January 20, 2006. Email submission both as
a Microsoft Word attachment and within the body of your email to both
osnesbeth@hotmail.com and
zandes@aol.com Beckett
and Ireland Beckett,
Thomas MacGreevy, Brian Coffey and Denis Devlin: an Irish Modernism? Essays addressing all aspects of Beckett's relationship with Ireland will be considered. Please send abstracts/proposals of 500 words for initial consideration to Seán Kennedy, Department of English, St Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 3C3, or by e-mail to sean.kennedy@smu.ca. Initial deadline: October 30th. A New Book of Morses: Encoding Joyce in the 21st Century The celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of Bloomsday marked a high point for Joyce Studies and for the scholars who have published and lectured on James Joyce over the past half a century. Their work has also provided a solid foundation for new research and fresh approaches to the study of Joyce's writing. It is in the spirit of such research that we are compiling a book called A New Book of Morses: Encoding Joyce in the 21st Century, which will be published by Rodopi as part of their European Joyce Studies series. the editors are calling for abstracts for a collection of essays by graduate students and emerging scholars from across the globe in the field of Joyce criticism. This collection aims for critical and creative analyses of Joyce's writing, while promoting innovative research by Joyce scholars. the editors welcome submissions on all topics, particularly essays that fall under the following categories: Law and Ownership; Ethics; Archival Insights; Cultures of Reading and Research; Twenty-first Century Joyce; and Politics and Society. This project
will be edited by: Please forward an abstract of approximately 400 words (for an essay of 3000-5000) words) to the editors at new_book_of_morses@yahoo.com Deadline for Abstracts: 1st December 2005 New
Book Series from Palgrave Macmillan ESTUDIOS
IRLANDESES Edna
O’Brien: New Critical Perspectives Aims and Intentions Edna O'Brien's writing has always provoked controversy, from her earliest The Country Girls trilogy to her more recent works of 'faction', In the Forest and Down by the River. Critical responses have been divided between those who see her writing as populist and stereotypical, and those who admire her flouting of taboo and experiments with style and language. Existing criticism has tended, however, to regard O'Brien primarily in the light of feminist and Irish nationalist and religious discourses, leaving unexplored a great deal of what makes her a complex and controversial figure. The aim of this edition is to extend existing O‘Brien criticism that resists returning to stereotypical representations of her writing, and to broaden the critical framework for O’Brien scholarship. For example, new readings of O’Brien’s work, criticism that focuses on genres other than novels and short fiction, discussions of her work in the context of twentieth/twenty first century (Irish) women’s writing and more, will all be considered.
Dr Sinead
Mooney sinead.mooney@nuigalway.ie NEW
IRISH STUDIES JOURNAL The Irish Atlantic: Intercultural Contact and Conflict At the invitation of Cambridge Scholars Press, a proposal for an edited collection of essays, provisionally entitled The Irish Atlantic: Intercultural Contact and Conflict, will be submitted for publication. The edited collection will consist of a mixture of selected proceedings from the Canadian Association for Irish Studies (CAIS) Conference on the theme of “Ireland and the Atlantic: Intercultural Contact and Conflict”, to be held at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, June 22-25, 2005, as well as selected essays chosen from the submissions received from this targeted call for papers. Submissions in relation to the following areas are particularly welcome: - Anthropological, cultural, geographical, historical, literary, and sociological analyses of the Irish Atlantic that focus on the interrelation between the collective experience of migration and Irish perceptions of modernization and modernity, especially ones that seek to build upon, engage with, or modify Paul Gilroy’s conceptual framework of “The Black Atlantic” and/or Linebaugh and Rediker’s idea of a “Revolutionary Atlantic”. - Anthropological, cultural, geographical, historical, literary, and sociological analyses of the interrelations between Irish migrants and First Nations or indigenous peoples in North, Central, and South America. - The racialization of the Irish in a Trans-Atlantic context, and Irish collective experiences of intercultural contact and conflict with other ethnic groups, such as African-Americans, French-Canadiens, Latin Americans, and others - The formation, inculcation, and transmission of Irish diasporic communities, forms of consciousness, and constructions of trans-national identity across the Atlantic and over a period of generations. - The diffusion, adaptation, and transference of Irish cultural, linguistic, and literary forms across the Atlantic. - Anthropological, cultural, geographical, historical, literary, and sociological analyses of the Irish immigrant experience in North, Central, and South America. - The formation and institutionalization of migratory routes between Ireland and any destination in the North, Central, or Southern Atlantic Sphere. While submissions in these areas will be prioritized for the edited collection, any proposal that reasonably addresses the topic of the Irish Atlantic will be seriously considered for publication in the volume. Submitted essays should be approximately 6000 words in length (including notes etc.) and should follow either the MLA Style Sheet (literatures and languages) or the Chicago Manual of Style (other disciplines). The author's name should only appear on the cover sheet in order to facilitate blind vetting, and all submissions will refereed and evaluated in terms of their suitability for the edited collection. Please send two hard copies and one electronic copy, by *1 August 2005*, to: Dr. Jason King, English Department, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, County Kildare. E-mail enquiries: jkingk@yahoo.com Amongst
Empires Deadline for submissions: 1st April 2006: Typed manuscripts, two copies, should be sent to: Michael de Nie, Department of History, TLC 3200, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA 30118 (mdenie@westga.edu) or Joe Cleary, Department of English, Arts Building, NUIMaynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland (jncleary@may.ie). Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies the editors invite papers on any aspect of English and American culture, literature, politics and society of the Long Eighteenth Century (1660-1800) for the 2006/2 issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies. Especially welcome will be papers which are relevant to the following: the institution of literature, theories of translation, Hungarian translation and reception, new directions in narrative forms, gender and the literary marketplace, politics and narrative, theories of the novel, Anglo-Irish literature in the eighteenth century, the Scottish Enlightenment, arguments in verse, verse and epic narrative. Conforming to the latest MLA style with inside references keyed to the Works Cited section, a hard and a soft copy of the contributions should be sent to the guest editors by 30 October 2005. In accordance with the policy of the journal, the papers will be read by two referees to decide about their acceptance for publication. An abstract of the contribution should be sent to the guest editors by 30 June 2005. Authors would be informed about the acceptance of their offer within a month. HJEAS is more than happy to send out requests for review copies of relevant books published in 2004, 2005 or 2006. the editors need these data: author, title, publisher, publisher’s address. the editors will forward such requests to the editor. Final deadline for requests: 30 April 2006. Final deadline for submitting reviews: 30 June 2006. Guest
editors: University
of Pécs Etudes Irlandaises: "Ireland and Europe in the 20th century" The interdisciplinary peer-reviewed French journal Etudes Irlandaises invites submissions for a special issue, "Ireland and Europe in the 20th century", to be published at the end of 2005. The guest editors are Christophe Gillissen (Paris, Sorbonne) and Stéphane Jousni (University of Rennes 2, France).The links between Ireland and Europe can be studied from various angles, be they literary, historical, political, linguistic or cultural. Possible topics, very broadly defined, include (but are not limited to) : - the historical dimension : the two world wars, diplomatic alliances, - organisations: European integration, the Council of Europe, the League of Nations, - cultural, migratory, economic and other exchanges, - a comparative approach:convergence and divergence (politics, economics, society), - the European city in 20th century Irish literature, - the classical heritage in 20th century Irish thought, - Europe as the crucible of modernism, - the Irish specificity within European modernism, - theoretical interactions between Ireland and the Continent, especially in the field of historiography. Articles including photographs will be particularly welcome. Submitted
articles should be sent in four paper copies and one electronic copy
by 31 March 2005 to: Dr Christophe Gillissen, 27, rue de la Fraternité,
92700 Colombes FRANCE Please ask Christophe Gillissen for the style-sheet of the journal. Etudes Irlandaises is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles in English and French which explore all aspects of Irish literature, history, culture and arts from ancient times to the present. Etudes Irlandaises publishes twice a year on a wide range of interdisciplinary subjects including : poetry / fiction / drama / film / music / politics / economy / social studies, etc. General issues published in Spring alternate with special issues in Autumn - recent topics include the Peace Process (1999) and the Irish Language (2001), Early Medieval Ireland (2002), Ireland and the United States (2003), and "Irish space(s): zones and margins" (2004). Etudes Irlandaises is aimed at scholars, postgraduate students, institutions specializing in Irish studies as well as people who have an informed interest in the subject. Each number ha a comprehensive section devoted to recently published material on Ireland.
ÉIRE-IRELAND: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES: Ireland and Gender Éire-Ireland seeks contributions for a special issue on Ireland and gender, scheduled for publication in spring 2006. Submissions should be mailed to the appropriate guest editor: Nancy
Curtin (for history and the social sciences), Department of History,
Fordham University, Bronx, New York 10458. Email nancy.curtin@verizon.net Marjorie Howes (for literature and the arts), Irish Studies, Connolly House, Boston College, 300 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill, 02467 MA. Email howesmb@bc.edu THE
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES The
Irish Theatre : At the Crossroads of
Traditions Ireland
is a meeting place between North American, Anglophone, and continental
European cultures. The Abbey Theatre, celebrating its centenary this
year, deliberately engaged with continental European models from its
inception, as its centenary programming of work from the New Europe
recalls. Synge’s debt to Ibsen and Yeats’s relationship with French
symbolism are well known, as is the influential presence of Irish playwrights
such as Sheridan, Farquhar, Goldsmith, Wilde and Shaw in the British
canon. The Irish theatre was born from a multiplicity of influences
and aesthetics. Now the flow of cultural and aesthetic influences seems
to be reversed, with Irish artists exploring the obsolescence of the
nation-state and nationalism, as well as the cultural and social implications
of European federalization and integration, replacing introspection
with aesthetic experimentation. Possible
topics include Articles will be accepted in both French and English. Closing date for submissions is Friday, January 14th 2005. Articles
may be submitted by email or hard copies may be mailed the editors. Dr.
Joël Beddows Popular Culture and Postmodern Ireland? Submissions are invited for a reader of cultural criticism on the theme of popular culture and postmodern Ireland. The editors welcome any new critical readings of emerging cultural practices that reflect and/or intervene in the diversity of cultural experience in contemporary Ireland. Areas for exploration include, but are not limited to, the following: -
Subcultures Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted by June 30th, 2004 to wanda.balzano@ucd.ie; anne.mulhall@ucd.ie; or moynagh.sullivan@ucd.ie; or mail abstracts to the address below: Wanda
Balzano/Anne Mulhall/Moynagh Sullivan Ireland
and Film Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: how is the nation represented in recent cinematic interpretations? What constitutes "Irish" cinema? How does the Irish question surface in film? What is the role of history in film narrative? How does film?s function in Irish culture differ from that of written fiction or plays? In what ways do film soundtracks reflect traditional Irish music? What role does the Irish landscape assume in film? Articles should be no longer than 5,000-6,000 words in length and should be written in MLA format. Submit three copies of the completed paper and disk (preferably in Microsoft Word), along with a cover letter and c.v., to Rebecca Steinberger, Assistant Professor of English, College Misericordia, 301 Lake Street, Dallas, PA 18612-1098. Submission
deadline is 1 September 2004 CALL
FOR CONTRIBUTORS: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF IRISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS It is explicitly intended to broaden traditional conceptualisations of the "Irish-American" axis beyond the specific interconnection between Ireland and the United States, to include all of the points of contact along the three continents of the Atlantic rim that bind Ireland and Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America together within the same trans-Atlantic sphere. The time frame covered ranges from the conquest of the Americas and the period of first contact to the present day, while the subject matter is multi-disciplinary. Despite this expansive geographical sweep and prolonged temporal framework, however, the work's underlying focus on trans-Atlantic interconnections and relations between Ireland and the Americas will lend it a unifying sense of coherence. Edited
by James Byrne, Philip Coleman and Jason King. Authors interested in
contributing to this unique and important project should contact the
editors at the following email address for further information and details
regarding the full list of entries: irishamericanrelations@yahoo.co.uk.
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